Day: September 4, 2017

While the bulk of the storm itself might be over, we’ll be feeling its effects for years to come. Hurricane Harvey will go down in history as one of the strongest, most devastating tropical systems ever to impact the United States. Here’s why: Harvey took only 56 hours to strengthen from a tropical depression into a Category 4 hurricane. Flickr/europeanspaceagency Only one other hurricane of this magnitude has made landfall on the Texas coastal bend:…